A school board official from East Pennsylvania has abruptly resigned from her post after becoming a political lightning rod for her views on LGBTQ bullying.

Carol Allen is a retired teacher who hates iPads and doesn’t seem to think bullying is a problem for gay youth, despite all evidence to the contrary. She was elected to the school board in 2015.

Last week, Allen submitted a curt resignation letter to School Board President Ken Bacher that read:

Ken, This is to inform you that I am resigning from the East Penn School Board effective immediately. Carol Allen.

Earlier this year, Allen sparked an outrage when she voiced her opposition to a local high school’s anti-bullying campaign.

It all started when students at Emmaus High School were shown a series of short #ProudToLove videos during morning announcements back in April. The videos were selected by the school’s Gay Straight Alliance.

Here’s one of them:

Totally offensive, right?

Allen thought so. She let her feelings be known at a school board meeting in June, claiming the videos violated parental rights. She also got local Tea Party officials and members of the antigay American Family Association to join her in voicing their disapproval.

During the public comment section of the meeting, one of Allen’s guests shouted an antigay slur at a teenager from the back of the room.

Ultimately, however, Allen and her fellow deplorables were vastly outnumbered by people in favor of the videos and the school’s approach to supporting its LGBTQ students. And so, last week, she resigned. Presumably, in protest.

But this wasn’t the first time Allen has taken issue with how the school district handles bullying.

In October 2017, she tried to block an anonymous survey that would track students’ attitudes about bullying, again citing parental rights.

“Parents do not know what their children are answering in survey questions,” she said.

Yeah, that’s kinda sorta the point of an “anonymous survey”. Allen’s attempts to block it were unsuccessful.

Ironically, in July 2017, she caused a huge stink when she said she “felt bullied” by colleagues after they didn’t invite her to visit with kids during a summer school session.

“I was very surprised because we talk about bullying all the time for years and years and years,” Allen said. “And I really felt bullied by the superintendent.”

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18 Comments

russellhm

Another dried-up old prune who likely has never been loved by either gender. And this also puts another strike against the fallacious Tea Party, an insult to our original protests against British tea taxes.

john_green

Looking across the ocean from the tiny country of New Zealand where the “she’ll be right” (everything will be ok) attitude reigns, I continue to be amazed by how much needless hatred is squeezed into America. I didn’t call it USA, because America is fractured not united. HOPEfully the enlightened young people of the future USA will soon flush away these evil bigots

Hey John — America is a geographic entity that comprises of 2 continents. North America and South America. That piece of shit country in the middle of North America is not America it is the United States. Don’t pull the rest of us down to that level – even though many are trying to.

Also, I hope this dried up snot bag continues to get bullied in day to day life. At the post office I hope people look down at her with derision. I hope cashiers are professionally quiet when they check her through at the grocery store. No idle chit chat for this bitch! Make her feel like an outsider!

You want to feel bullied Carol, sure we can help you with that!

September 13, 2018 at 4:09pm

gymmuscleboy

@turnipHed To me, stories like these are evidence that the culture war has at least reached tipping point – and we are winning. As my fellow kiwi pointed out, we all know that western society is fractured, and he might as well be referring to you when he says “needless hatred”. Can we find it in our hearts to accept our victory and move on? You are right – people already look down at her with derision. We don’t need to bully the opposition back. Two wrongs don’t make a right. The old bully lady and all her friends have already lost and they cannot win. The culture is trending in our favour and the onus is on us to take the high road. Bullying the opposition is not an advisable method to secure/maintain our win.

September 14, 2018 at 5:09am

gymmuscleboy

@jonh_green If we didn’t have tall poppy syndrome, and we had the same scale, NZ would be just as fractured as America. Nitpicking America is so passe. It’s almost like you’re looking forward to China overtaking them as the superpower – what do you think that will be like?

Let’s see what our breakneck immigration policy will bring us, eh? We are already the least corrupt country (high social trust) in the world – it can only be downhill from here.

RamblingManNJ

msfrost

Him too.

September 13, 2018 at 7:09pm

PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS

Hope Karma brings that nasty, vile, abhorrent, noxious crunt raging cottage cheese filled yeast infections every day for the rest of her miserable life. Til she is shoved into the bowels of Hell to burn in agony for eternity..

sanfranca1

unreligious

Looking at the comments here it’s easy to see why the right calls us homo-fascists. Really people grow up and quit the name calling. You can and should disagree with her politics. That however does not mean you should act like children and call her sexist, ageist terms. Your doing so puts you in the same boat as Trump who makes a career out of name calling.

DCguy

It’s always adorable when a right wing troll account tries to come in here with a new screename and blend in.

Sweetie, not all “Homos” are atheists, or vegan or whatever, but your screename was your first mistake. Too obvious. Second, was the fact that you pretended to be part of “Us” but you turned your post into an attack on the victims while trying to deflect from the fact that this woman brought the power of her office and all of her effort into insuring that LGBT brutalized in school wouldn’t have any recourse.

So I’d say “Nice Try” but you’re going to have to do better.

September 14, 2018 at 9:09am

Lacuevaman

damn that DCGurl is up to her paranoid sh*t again. honey, look under the bed, take a valium, have a stiff drink and trust in the Lord!

September 15, 2018 at 7:09pm

DCguy

@ Lacuevaman

Translation: You are another account that continually comes in only to defend anti-LGBT bigotry and are desperately trying to deflect from the fact that this woman is a bigot by lashing out.

Please tell the hate group to send better trolls, you really aren’t very good at this.

September 17, 2018 at 10:09am

djmcgamester

She didn’t get invited to a party and that made her feel bullied? Please, let’s not redefine bullying to mean “my feelings were hurt”.